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Wednesday October 30, 2024. 05:41 PM
The Raspberry Pi project has announced a new version of Raspberry Pi OS. It includes a number of significant changes, the most notable of which is that the Raspberry Pi Desktop now uses Wayland by default for all Pi models using the labwc compositor: For most of this year,...
The kernel graphics driver for the Apple M1 and M2 GPUs is, rather famously, written in Rust, but it has achieved conformance with various graphics standards, which is also noteworthy. At the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) 2024, Alyssa Rosenzweig gave an update on the...
The first stable release of the Thunderbird mail client for Android is now available: Just over two years ago, we announced our plans to bring Thunderbird to Android by taking K-9 Mail under our wing. The journey took a little longer than we had originally anticipated and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah), Debian (python-git, texlive-bin, and xorg-server), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (Botan, go1.22-openssl, go1.23-openssl, grafana, libgsf, pcp, pgadmin4, python310-pytest-html, python313,...
Tuesday October 29, 2024. 06:27 PM
Mozilla has announced the release of a new version of Firefox. This version has the usual mix of security fixes and new features, as well as a handful of deprecations. The release removes support for HTTP/2 Push, but adds hardware acceleration for SVGs, support for wide...
Fedora Linux 41 has been released. See the 'what's new' pages for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE, to learn more about the latest in those editions. There is also a new Fedora Miracle Window Manager Spin that offers the Miracle tiling window manager for Wayland.
The first program that Martin Pool ever wrote, he said, had bugs; the ones he's writing now most likely have bugs too. The talk Pool gave at RustConf this year was about a way to try to write programs with fewer bugs. He has developed a tool called cargo-mutants that...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (exim4) and SUSE (chromium, openssl-1_1, and openssl-3).
A project called Flock has announced its existence. Flock is a fork of the Flutter user-interface toolkit project, motivated by frustration with the resources that Google is putting into Flutter. We describe Flock as 'Flutter+'. In other words, we do not want, or intend,...
Monday October 28, 2024. 10:28 PM
Debian Developer Russell Coker has written up an analysis of the remote exploit of CUPS announced in September: He seems to have a different experience to me of reporting bugs, I have had plenty of success getting bugs fixed without hyping them. I just report the bug, wait...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced the release of version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition: The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source...
Sparrow Li presented virtually at RustConf 2024 about the current state of and future plans for the Rust compiler's performance. The compiler is relatively slow to compile large programs, although it has been getting better over time. The next big performance improvement to...
Rong Xu and Han Shen described the kernel-optimization techniques that Google uses in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference. They talked about automatic feedback-directed optimization (AutoFDO), which can be used with the Propeller optimizer to produce...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, python3.12, and python3.9), Debian (activemq, chromium, libheif, nss, and twisted), Fedora (chromium, dnsdist, dotnet8.0, edk2, glibc, libdigidocpp, mbedtls3.6, NetworkManager-libreswan, oath-toolkit, podman-tui,...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been working on defining Open Source AI—that is what constitutes an AI system that can be used, studied, modified, and shared for any purpose—for almost two years. Its board will be voting on the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) on...
Linus has released 6.12-rc5 for testing. rc5 looks perfectly normal, and maybe even on the small side of normal. The diffstat looks nice and flat too, with the exception of the removal of the da8xx fbdev driver due to it having been replaced by the tilcdc driver. And I'm...
Friday October 25, 2024. 09:39 PM
A pair of talks in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference covered different tools that can be used to optimize the kernel. First up was Maksim Panchenko to describe the binary optimization and layout tool (BOLT) that Meta uses on its production kernels....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (distro-info-data), Fedora (libtiff), Mageia (firefox and oath-toolkit), Red Hat (krb5), and SUSE (openssl-1_1).
Thursday October 24, 2024. 05:36 PM
Small objects can lead to large email threads. In this case, the GNU C Library (glibc) community has been having an extensive debate over the handling of zero-byte allocations. Specifically, what should happen when a program calls realloc() specifying a size of zero? This...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana, NetworkManager-libreswan, python3.11, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Fedora (dotnet6.0, koji, python-fastapi, python-openapi-core, python-platformio, python-starlette, rust-pyo3, rust-pyo3-build-config,...
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